Assistant Procurement Manager Marketing - Data Capability/Business Analyst

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ABOUT PROCUREMENT

Part of the Supply Chain family, Procurement is responsible for over 30B of material and services spend globally with more than 60,000 suppliers, over half of them in MBS. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brands with purpose grow. Our teams work closely with the business to understand stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees and customer’s needs, and drive financial value for Unilever through competitive buying.

Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our ambition is based on three key drivers: being Purpose-Led, Value-Driven, and Future-Fit.

ABOUT MBS

MBS, Unilever’s Marketing & Business Services Procurement team, is responsible for Unilever’s sourcing and supplier strategy and execution for all third party spend across Marketing, Business Services, and IT, supporting the business requirements of Brands, Divisions, Markets, and functions to drive 4G growth through strategic supplier management, cost and value management, sustainability, and innovation, aligned with Unilever’s Compass. Within MBS, Strategic Procurement Portfolio Managers are responsible for Promo & Commerce portfolios E2E for all Markets as per scope globally.

The Assistant Procurement Manager will report to the Strategic Portfolio Procurement Manager and work together with our Sales/Marketing/Finance functions, as well as various Marketing Portfolios managers within Procurement. This with the aim to help to develop and implement Unilever’s global promo & commerce portfolio strategies to drive sales and ROI and enhance consumer’s shopping experience across markets in close collaboration with the global Promo & Commerce Strategic Procurement Manager. The position for the Assistant Sourcing Manager will be based in Turkey.

The Assistant Procurement Manager will support the Marketing Procurement Portfolio Manager who partners and works with our Global Brand teams to increase effectiveness of our marketing procurement by streamlining accountabilities, building capabilities, and leveraging knowledge, relationships, and business strategies across markets.

The Assistant Procurement Manager will support the Strategic Procurement Portfolio Manager by providing the data insights to increase efficiency of our marketing procurement by driving scale where it makes sense, decreasing fragmentation, prioritizing higher impact areas, leveraging technology and data, and drive performance that unlocks 4G growth for Unilever.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are really enthusiastic to learn everything about procurement in marketing then this role is just for you!

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Understand the business needs related to Promo&Commerce portfolio, translate business requirements, understand FMCG industry dynamic, consumer insights, by working very closely with the Strategic Sourcing Manager.
• Support Promo&Commerce procurement manager to establish global strategy, goals and priorities, data analysis and visualization aligned with Unilever GAP 2030 and OneMBS strategies and principles
• Work together with Market Procurement, local Stakeholders and functions (Customer Development, Finance, CMI) execute sourcing strategy, operating models, to help drive growth including focus on Responsible Sourcing Policy.
• Support to deliver team targets and other KPIs (including value delivery) as per OKR’s/objectives across all BU’s/BG’s,
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, to support business, BU/BG’s, MBS and procurement priorities.
• Ensure Portfolio fundamentals (i.e., data consistency, data insights, recurring stakeholder communications, contracts, quality processes etc.) are all put in place for Markets in scope.
• Collaborate with Marketing Procurement teams globally to drive data-led interventions.
• Be familiar and the ability to obtain different data from tools, platforms and internal sources.
• Data analysis and data visualization with transitioning data from Excel to PowerBI.
• Utilize advanced Excel/SQL skills to analyse and interpret data effectively.
• Reporting, analysis, and insights: Support and manage data requests from stakeholders, build/maintain reports, dashboards and metrics to track performance, derive insights, identify long-term trends, and communicate recommendations via presentations to stakeholders.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Few years of data analytics experience, preferably in marketing procurement.
• Strong data analytics skills and data visualization.
• Basic understanding of the marketing value chain, marketing trends and ideally FMCG knowledge. Knowledge of the marketing Promo&Commerce portfolio and its supply markets is considered as a plus.
• Experience in supplier relationship management and in large-scale projects is considered an advantage.

Skills

• Proficient analytical skills in Excel is essential, extensive experience in Data Analytics or Information Management
• Advanced Excel skills to interpret data effectively and able to convert to compelling PPT’s.
• Advanced transitioning data skills from Excel to PowerBI.
• Experience of data warehouse and reporting/dashboard development.
• Ability to understand and formulate insights to tell compelling, data stories or insights based on large, complex data sets, for the delivery of opportunities.
• Comfort with visualizing data in a range of output formats (e.g. PPT decks) or tools (e.g. BI tools such as Tableau, etc.) with clear attention to detail. Ability to create polished data oriented presentations for executive and board-level consumption.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including creation and delivery of effective presentations.
• Detail oriented and analytical mind with problem solving capabilities.
• Delivers change whilst managing the interface between “day to day” and improvement projects.
• Passion for continuous improvement. Good at project and time management.
• Passion and practical creativity, positive attitude and personality, strong integrity, and good ethics.
• Ability to work under pressure and in a complex global environment balancing a broad spectrum of stakeholder requirements.
• Strong interpersonal, team building, written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative team player in across-cultural and cross-functional environments.
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and in virtual teams.
• High financial and business acumen, and ability to interpret data to generate data-led insights.
• Tenacious and resilient in the pursuit of challenging goals.

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.